Strictly by Invitation

So Jesus stands up at a feast in a house and then he extended an invitation If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink Timeless invitation to the river of God The water of life is given freely to anyone who thirsts Now the world makes us dead to his longing to fill us with himself So we begin to fill up God's space with things so things become God to us We miss out on the highest delight, the highest pleasure So God becomes a chore to us, a slave master When he wants to be Lord, he wants to be enjoyed So Jesus calls us to think less and drink more To surrender your mind and open your heart Jesus didn't come to the earth because everyone was seeking him and needing him He came because no one was seeking him And he gave himself so everyone can see him, seek him And then we can see that he is the desire of the nations And what he does is that he will make you what you need to be Instead of telling you what to do He is giving us a new covenant and the new covenant produces new desires So when everyone is chained to the things of the earth You fly to heights, you leave from a higher realm You are bound to first love, your very first love, Jesus And yet there is this yearning to give yourself to him in prayer That you don't know how to express with words Groanings that are beyond words Oh Lord, I can't even want you without you Your thirst is your recognition that you need him And sin is what you do when you are not satisfied with God When you want something more than what God gives For he gives himself Lord, free me from the need to have anything else I can't even obey you by myself Working on myself will not work But you work in me both to will and to do of your good pleasure You have installed your spirit in me And you give me a new understanding of life And a new value system I come to you, oh God, my King The one who says Come to me If you are thirsty Now I give you to drink I come to you So I can abide in you I refuse to depart So I can be fruitful So I can be fruitful Friends, remember this That to seek God means That God has your attention, your affection and your desires There is a well that never runs dry You don't have to thirst anymore Come to me, says Jesus Have a great day friends!